After exhaustive, and exhausting, presentations, it is clear that Donald Trump was not actually motivated by broad issues of political corruption and financial burden sharing among European allies. And as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, once you are impeached, you are impeached forever . Trump also got exactly what he wanted in the first place. He got to smear the reputation of the Democratic candidate he thinks is his strongest opponent -- former Vice President Joe Biden. But not to be deterred, the President and his Republican colleagues found an alternative venue to smear Biden -- the floor of the United States Senate.

Source: CNN January 30, 2020 23:26 UTC